THE PRESIDENT IS DELUSIONAL, IN DENIAL, AND STUPID!

The Washington Post is reporting that Bush wants to increase the size of the military “to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists…”. The article goes on to say that our military leaders are concerned that the forces we have are stretched too thin right now.

How much more will we be expected to swallow of this president’s bullshit? If we are stretched thin right now, what happens if Korea or Iran or China decide that now is the time to battle the America? We don’t have enough troops to protect our mainland and we will be forced to use, or threaten to use, nuclear weapons. All of our technology advantage is negated by the sheer volume of forces we would be up against.

It will take years according the article to raise troop levels. Do we have years? Or has this president proven to the world that we have no clue when it comes to war?

The time has come for the new Congress to examine the funding for this ill conceived venture and to tell the president something he needed to hear a long time ago……NO MORE!

I will have more on this issue later, but I wanted (egotistically, according to George Will) something up now.

MRS. DUG SENT ME THIS TO POST. IT IS APPROPRIATE ONCE AGAIN. SADLY.

Lyrics for: Bring The Boys Home

Amazon has a snippet that you can listen to here.

Fathers are pleading, lovers are all alone
Mothers are prayin’, send our sons back home (tell ‘em ’bout it)
You marched them away, yes you did now, on ships and planes
To a senseless war facing death in vain

Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
(Why don’t you) Turn the ships around
(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down

Can’t you see ‘em marchin’ ‘cross the sky?
All the soldiers that have died
Tryin’ to get home
Can’t you see them tryin’ to get home?
Tryin’ to get home
They’re tryin’ to get home

Cease all fire (tell ‘em ’bout it) on the battlefield
Enough men have already been wounded and killed

Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
(Why don’t you) Turn the ships around
(Everybody oughta) Lay your weapons down
(Mothers, fathers, and lovers, can’t you see them?)

Tryin’ to get home
Can’t you see them tryin’ to get home?
(Have mercy)
Tryin’ to get home
Tryin’ to get home

Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ‘em back alive)

What they doin’ over there now (bring ‘em back alive)
When we need ‘em over here now? (bring ‘em back alive)
What they doin’ over there now (bring ‘em back alive)
When we need ‘em over here now? (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring ‘em all, bring ‘em all home (bring ‘em back alive)
Bring ‘em all, bring ‘em home now (bring ‘em back alive)

Bring The Boys Home by Freda Payne

Album: Contact
Date: 1971

This was written during the war in Vietnam. It is protesting to stop the war and return home the young men who were sent to fight.
Although this received a lot of airplay in the States, it was banned by the US Command from the American Forces Network for fear that it would “give aid and comfort to the enemy.”
This song was not included in the first 50,000 copies of Contact. It was added onto the album when it became a hit.
This was Freda Payne’s second gold record. Her first was ” Band Of Gold.”